Cal Raleight is a switch receiver for sailors, and one who seeks power. On Wednesday, he launched the 99 and 100 home run of his career, and then, on Thursday night, he hit another for good measure. That is all normal for “Big Dumper”, since he has such an affectionately nicknamed leg, but the new thing is his Bat choice.
Raleigh recently becomes the bats of Torpedo, which he collected only one week ago for the beginning of a series of sailors Rangers. That week has gone quite well, but there is also something important to consider here: Raleigh only uses a torpedo bat when heated from the left side of the plate. Which, awarded, is more than now the bats on the right side, since they are much more right -handed pitchers in the league than left -handed ones, but it is not yet something for each appearance on the plate. Enough for five of the six homers he has hit since last Friday to be on the left side with a bate of torpedo in his hand, he thought.
The reason for that, as Raleight explained about The Cal Raleigh showIt transmits on the Seattle Sports radio network, it is because it prefers the weight distribution of its bats, depending on the side of the plate in which it is heat. From the left, the thickest barrel of the bat torpedo works for him, given the nature of his swing. From the right, the thought, Raleigh’s swing is “more flat”, so I would prefer to have more weight in the end Or the bat instead of barrel focused.
While Raleight feels that Torpedo’s bat is as natural in his hands as what he was using previously, there are differences. The barrel, of course, but what has less attention is the child of the wood used to produce bats in its remarkable form. “There are regulations on Arce’s bats due to the way they break and low density, so it is some security for when you break them,” Raleight explained in the program. “You don’t want pitchers [to] Be beaten or a position player because [maple bats] Breaking so easy when they have a certain way and the barrel is too large. So they keep the maries a little narrower, while Ash or Birch, you can make the barrel much larger because the density and they will not break like an arce. “
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Arce’s bats were not always the ubiquitous choice between the major league players, since their increase owes much to the success of players like Barry Bonds Duration in the late 90s and early 200,000. The torpedo bats may not end up being for everyone, again, even Raleigh, which seems to be a fan of them so far, you have no reasons to change to torpedos on both sides of the plate Little as Courd Everagy goes to wood for MLB bats.
However, what will be needed for that to happen is that players like Raleight continues to find success with bats and be able to understand why this success is happening. MLB players are open to changes that can improve their performance, but also detest change what works, for understandable reasons. Someone like Raleight who already presents power: it was deep 34 times in 2024, his second season of at least 30 homers in three full years in the big ones, entering and seeing more success after changing the youth youth of his Bacht Juventud, however, that than Whatte Thatte Thatte Thatte Thatte Thatte Thatte Thatte That.
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